Physical unclonable functions

Y Gao, SF Al-Sarawi, D Abbott - Nature Electronics, 2020 - nature.com
A physical unclonable function (PUF) is a device that exploits inherent randomness
introduced during manufacturing to give a physical entity a unique 'fingerprint'or trust anchor …

FPGA-based Physical Unclonable Functions: A comprehensive overview of theory and architectures

NN Anandakumar, MS Hashmi, M Tehranipoor - Integration, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are a promising technology and have
been proposed as central building blocks in many cryptographic protocols and security …

PUFchain: A hardware-assisted blockchain for sustainable simultaneous device and data security in the internet of everything (IoE)

SP Mohanty, VP Yanambaka… - IEEE Consumer …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the first-ever blockchain that can simultaneously handle device and
data security, which is important for the emerging Internet-of-Everything (IoE). It presents a …

The interpose PUF: Secure PUF design against state-of-the-art machine learning attacks

PH Nguyen, DP Sahoo, C **, K Mahmood… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2018 - eprint.iacr.org
The design of a silicon Strong Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) that is lightweight and
stable, and which possesses a rigorous security argument, has been a fundamental problem …

Spectral sensitivity near exceptional points as a resource for hardware encryption

M Yang, L Zhu, Q Zhong, R El-Ganainy… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The spectral sensitivity near exceptional points (EPs) has been recently explored as an
avenue for building sensors with enhanced sensitivity. However, to date, it is not clear …

Approximation attacks on strong PUFs

J Shi, Y Lu, J Zhang - … transactions on computer-aided design of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical unclonable function (PUF) is a promising lightweight hardware security primitive for
resource-constrained systems. It can generate a large number of challenge-response pairs …

PMsec: Physical unclonable function-based robust and lightweight authentication in the Internet of Medical Things

VP Yanambaka, SP Mohanty… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various commercial off-the-shelf components are available for the development of
communication-enabled consumer electronics devices. This opens new doors to attackers …

Deep learning based model building attacks on arbiter PUF compositions

P Santikellur, A Bhattacharyay… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2019 - eprint.iacr.org
Robustness to modeling attacks is an important requirement for PUF circuits. Several
reported Arbiter PUF com-positions have resisted modeling attacks. and often require huge …

Splitting the interpose PUF: A novel modeling attack strategy

N Wisiol, C Mühl, N Pirnay, PH Nguyen… - IACR Transactions on …, 2020 - tches.iacr.org
We demonstrate that the Interpose PUF proposed at CHES 2019, an Arbiter PUF-based
design for so-called Strong Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), can be modeled by …

Homogeneous and heterogeneous feed-forward XOR physical unclonable functions

SVS Avvaru, Z Zeng, KK Parhi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are hardware security primitives that are used for
device authentication and cryptographic key generation. Standard XOR PUFs typically …